Process Safety Management
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Ian Sutton
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 4 0 2 7 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 4 0 2 8 - 4
Process Safety Management offers comprehensive and practical guidance for developing and implementing process safety in design, operations, and maintenance of existing facili… Read more
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Process Safety Management offers comprehensive and practical guidance for developing and implementing process safety in design, operations, and maintenance of existing facilities by the concepts of process safety management (PSM) through detailed definitions, examples, historic perspectives and case-studies related to process safety. This book is the natural successor to Sutton's Process Risk and Reliability Management to offer updates and a deep dive into the crucial aspects of process safety. Across Twenty-Five Chapters, Process Safety Management provides guidance is provided for process safety elements, encompassing hazards analysis, incident investigation, operating procedures, training, and audits. The book outlines how to enhance safety but also emphasizes the improvement of operational integrity, equipment reliability, and system availability, with a focus on the integration of a process safety program into overall operational excellence. This book includes an overview of process safety regulations and standards, along with information on proposed updates to process safety standards by regulatory bodies such as OSHA and the EPA, while exploring how generative AI such as Chat GPT can be applied to PSM. Finally, this book includes discussion on net-zero initiatives and how process safety measures can be implemented to help work towards sustainable processes. This book will be a valuable resource for graduate students taking courses on process safety and risk engineering, such as courses are offered by Chemical Engineering; Industrial Engineering; and Process Engineering Disciplines. The book is also contains experimental guidance and will be very useful for practicing engineers in design house, consultancy, and operation. Process Safety Management will serve as reference book to develop, evaluate, and improve process safety management practices across multiple industries, and provide guidance to the members of regulatory agencies such as CSB, OSHA, API, NFPA, US EPA, and others.
- Provides practical guidance to process safety professionals at all levels, including project engineers, operations staff, auditors, consultants and facility managers
- Provides details on how to develop a process safety program that meets regulatory requirements. This includes a detailed description of the proposed updates to the regulations from regulatory bodies such as OSHA and the EPA
- Shows how process safety programs can be integrated with operational excellence programs that not only enhance safety, but that also improve equipment reliability, system availability and overall profitability
- Introduces the core concepts of process safety by providing very detailed definitions, examples, historic perspectives and case-studies related to process safety
- Builds upon foundation established in Sutton's book Process Risk and Reliability Management
Graduate students taking courses on process safety and risk engineering, such as courses are offered by Chemical Engineering; Industrial Engineering; and Process Engineering Disciplines. The book is also contains experimental guidance and will be very useful for practicing engineers in design house, consultancy, and operation
1. The Process Safety Discipline
2. The Process and Energy Industries
3. Risk Management
4. Regulations and Standards
5. Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) Programs
6. Participation and Culture
7. Process Safety Information
8. Hazards Analysis
9. Consequence Analysis
10. Frequency Analysis
11. Operating Procedures
12. Training, Education and Competence
13. Contractor Management
14. Operational Readiness
15. Asset Integrity
16. Permit to Work
17. Management of Change
18. Incident Investigation and Analysis
19. Emergency Management
20. Audits and Reviews
21. Reliability, Availability and Maintainability
22. Safety in Design
23. Managing a Process Safety Program
24. The Process Safety Professional
25. The Future Bibliography
2. The Process and Energy Industries
3. Risk Management
4. Regulations and Standards
5. Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) Programs
6. Participation and Culture
7. Process Safety Information
8. Hazards Analysis
9. Consequence Analysis
10. Frequency Analysis
11. Operating Procedures
12. Training, Education and Competence
13. Contractor Management
14. Operational Readiness
15. Asset Integrity
16. Permit to Work
17. Management of Change
18. Incident Investigation and Analysis
19. Emergency Management
20. Audits and Reviews
21. Reliability, Availability and Maintainability
22. Safety in Design
23. Managing a Process Safety Program
24. The Process Safety Professional
25. The Future Bibliography
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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Ian Sutton
Ian Sutton is a chemical engineer with over thirty years of experience in the process industries. He has worked on the design and operation of chemical plants, offshore platforms, refineries, pipelines and mineral processing facilities. He has extensive experience in the development and implementation of process safety management and operational excellence programs. He has published multiple books including Process Risk and Reliability Management, 2nd Edition and Offshore Safety Management, 2nd Edition, both published by Elsevier.
Affiliations and expertise
Principal, Sutton Technical Books, USA